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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21
AWFUL FATE OF TWO MEN.
EnveIoped in Rlazing Turpentfne The,
Are Literally Annihilated.

COLUMBIA, S. c., July 21.A horrible ac-
cident, the result Of carelessness, occurred
Tuesday night at billiard Goodwin's turpen-
tine distilery in Lexington county Thomas
Griffin, the distiller, accompanied by a negro
laborer, went into the still house with kerr
osene lamp. and by careless handling over
turned barrel of spirits aud set fire to its
contents The two men made desperate ef-
forts to extinguish the burning fluid with
sand from the floor. but the flames soon com
municated with the hot spirits in the still,
when terrific explosion ensued Griffin and
his companion were enveloped in q sheet of
flame. In an incredibly short time the two
men with the entire establishment were
burned mp in spite of the efforts of Mr..
Goodwin and several others. When the flrs
had exhausted itself not vestigs Of The twe
snsr seuld b fenad
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

ST. PETERSBURG. July 81 - The Afghan
boundary question was settled "Wednesday 10y
the Joint British and Russian commission BY
the terms of the settlement Russia receives
the territory lying between the Kusk and the
Mnrghab rivers and accepts the English frou
tier line on the Oxus, renouucine heI claims
to districts TO which she would have been en-
titled hy the terms of the arrangement made
IN 1883, which she then refused To accept.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

WASHINGTON CITY, July 21.-Capt, Bunce,
commander of the o. S S Atlanta, has sent
a report to the navy department, in which
he speaks of an accident which occurred on
board the vessel in GARDENERS bay while
pra cticing with the new guns. The clips and
clip circles did not bold the eight-inch guns
satisfactorily with ma ximum charge calcu-
lated to give proiectiles 2,000 feet velocity
The same was true of the six-inch guns
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

NEWARK Del, July 2l.-The boiler Of a
thresbing machine exploded Wednesday
afternoon on the farm of Edward Stroud,
living about three miles from here, and killed
Stroud himself and a 13-year-o old colored boy
instantly, and badly scalded two other men.
The force of the explosion sent the engine
forward fully 100 feet, turning over and over
in it course until all the steam had escaped.
A horse which stood in its path was also
killed. Mrs. Stroud and six children survive
the deceased husband and father.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21
A Converted Mohammedan.

New YORK, July 2L-Lazarus S Murad
a converted Mobammedan, died Tuesday al
his horne in this city. He was born in Bethle
hem, Judea. in 1874, and was converted tc
Christianity many years ago by American
missionaries This led to his imprisonment
by his father, hut he escaped and has since
resided in England and America. He was
finely educated. and devoted himself mainly
to religious and educational literary work,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

FALL RIVER, Mass, July 21.-At the K of
l. convention in session here Wednesday res-
olutions were adopted declaring it necessary
to the best interests of the order that T. "
Powderly should remain at the head, and in
structing the delegates from this district to
refuse to accept his resignation if rendered at
Minneapolis The convention decided to pay
the bills growing out of the Worcester lock-
out, This means an expense of slU,UOG In ad-
dition to the Sol 600 already paid
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 2l-At thp con-
spiracy trial "Wednesday Judge M'Nutt made
the opening statement for the defendants
was very severe on f S Perkins, and de-
clared that he alone had made the changes in
the tally-sheetS, and vas now about to ap-
pear as witness and place the blame upon
innocent men. Henry Spaan. one of the de-
fondants, made statement in his own he
half, and Congressman Bynum appeared for
Albert Beck, his law partner Several wit
nesses Were introduced. but the testimony re-
lated only To the fact that tally sheets had
been altered before being submitted to the
board Of canvassers
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21
SETTLED THE COMMISSION QUESTION.
A Decision of the Interstate Commission
to which Morrison Dissenfs.

A Decision of the Interstate Commission
to which Morrison Dissenfs.
WASHINGTON CRY, July 21-The most i'm
portant decision rendered by the interstate
commerce commission Wednesday was that
on the commission cases" which involved a
complaint of the Chicago & Alton and Chi
cago. Rock Island & Pacific against the Penn
sylvania and other roads, that the latter re-
fused to sell the tickets of the former from
Chicago and St Louis to Kansas City, being
DESTROYS of abolishing the commission sys-
tenn by which the ticket agents of one road
received commissions from other roads for
selling the tickets of the former. The COM
plant was dismissed, and in the decision the
commission says:
"1he statute does not divest railroad com
pany of the exclusive right to control its own
internal affairs. TO employ its own agent, to
regulate their duties, and to pay them such
compensation as it NAV deem proper. The
right of ownership of railroad property, with
the power of control over employees and
management of the property, is as
absolute under the act as before its passage.
The regulation of commerce between the
states, which is all that the act contemplates,
0oco itt,t 1aftisc community VI VI
joint control of subordinates among the sew
eral companies that honor through tickets
The corporate powers of every company for
all administrative and governing purposes
within its prescribed sphere remain unim-
paired. With the legitimate exercise of these
powers another company has no concern and
no right to intermeddle.
"For the proper government of their own
subordinates the defendant companies have
forbidden their agents to receive commission
from other companies and directed them not
to sell tickets over roads of companies that
refuse to recognize this corporate authority,
but insist on Substituting the agents In these
directions the defendants have not tran
scended their reasonable rights One person
or corporation has no right to interfere with
the employees of another, and the statutes do
not disturb this old and sound principle
Mr.. Morrison dissents, and in bis opinion
saws: an any view OF the case it seems to me
that the defendants must sell through Jackets
to those who want them over the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy, and dissent from the
views of my associates with great diffidence,
for the reason that this question is presented
both as a question of law and of railroad
ethics or morals would not willingly delay
reform in railway administration, nor hinder
the defendant in any well meant effort to
reform itself, which is the measure of its
present effort, for it only exacts from the
comp anies with connecting lines that they
shall discontinue the offer of cor missions to
its own, while they offer them 10 the agents
Of all other companies The payment OF
commissions may be subject TO such abuse as
to demand discontmuanee; but until declared
Illegal they should not he made to excuse COM
mon carriers from the performance OF ebliga-
tons 70 the publicn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21
Drank the Queen's Health "Decoro

Drank the Queens Health "DecOrOusIy."
LONDON, July 2l.-Parnell and a large
number of his parliamentary followers were
guests at banquet given in their honor at
the National Liberal club Wednesday night.
All the Irish members decorously drank the
queens health, which was proposed by Mr..
Lewis L. Dillwin, member for Swansea
town, who presided Parnell made speech
in which he eulogized Gladstone, and ap
pealed to the Irish TO trust the Liberals, and
declared they would be most ungrateful ii
they should in any way retard the Liberals
III the path of justice for Ireland
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

New YORK. July q During a tit of
jealousy Wednesday evening, Mr.. H Loden,
n carpenter, Of ll6 East One Hundred and
Nnth street, shot and wounded his wife and
her mother. Eliza Wright He then shot
himself in the right temple, infiicting pro
baby fatal wound Laden died at the
Presby terian hospital later Mrs Wright
will probably die, but Mrs. Loden will re-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

CHICAGO, July The officers of the
Washington Park club have rescinded tbs
order of suspension applied couple of DAYS
ago to Mr. Corrigan, the Kansas City turf
man. The officers claim that all apology
was received from Mr. Corrigan at Saratoga
by telegraph, for his language used GU the
occasion of the Irish Pat race, and hsnce hi.
reinstatement
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

DETROIT, Mich, July q AT the Driving
park course Wednesday Loretta won the
2;27 event; best time, 2:2l14 Arab took the
stakes in the free-f or-all, best time, 2:t9 The
PA pace was unfinished, Joe L. having two
heats out of four Nine Marentelle, with
running team TO wagon, did the mile in Al,
beating her best previous record OF l:411s.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

LONDON, July 2l.-A meeting of Irish Con
SENTATIVE members of parliament was held
Wednesday night, at which it was decided tc
offer no opposition to the amendments to ths
land bill accepted by Salisbury The changes
in the bill have 50 lessened the opposition
that it is expected to pass the COMMITTEES
stage within a week
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

BUCHAREST, July 2i.-M DeCoutouly, the
French minister to Reumania, speaking at a
banquet given on July "a in comfneiuoration
Of the siormipg of the bastile, said that the
republic Of France was preparing for san
culinary struggle which the longer delayed
would he the rpare formidable
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 2l-The Journal
publishes an interview with First Assistant
Postmaster General Stevenson. at Waukesha,
Wis The general says that under no circum
stances would he be candidate for vice
president but thinks Col Villas would make
an excellent and acceptable candidate
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. July 2I,-The
meeting of the Northwestern Rowing asso
citation closed here Wednesday The seniol
single souls was won by J. F. Corbett, o1
Chicago. The Excelsiors, of Detroit, woi
the senior pair-oars. The senior fours wa.
the event of the day, and was won by thu
SyNans. The senior double was taken by
Kart aud Weiuad, of the Delawares, Chica
60 The Sylvans took the huuUrs in tn,
four Dared gig race
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

NEW ORLEANS, July Il.-The well-known
cotton factorage firm of I. l. Airy & Co., of
this city, got caught in the recent corner in
cotton, and have applied to the courts for a
respite from their creditors. The house
claims to have no assets to cover its liabilities
1t is known that several other houses here
are sufferers by the collapse of the cotton
corner
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

NEW York, July 2l-tapt. J. c. Daily,
Irish champion athlete. and Duncan c. Ross
have posted forfeit for $500 mounted broad
sword contest to finish between Aug II
and Is, the fight TO he until one contestant is
conquered or disabled
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

LONDON July 2l.--The official returns of
the eDictions in Ireland during the quarter
ending with the month of June show that
g. l4i writs OF ejectnient were executed. OF
the number Of tenants elected, 1856 were re-
admitted to their holdings as tenants, and
5 1877 as csre-takers
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

SHERMAN, Tex, July 2L-The Sherman
branch of the st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas
railroad has been coi,ti-ted, giving Sherman
three lines to st. Lotiis, Fhe driving of tls'
last spike wa. celebrated w sReeebes and ,ra7
N.srEs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

CONCORD, N H., July 21-United State:
Senator Chandler states that he never wrote
or inspired the letter recently attributed &c
him in which he was represented as favor
ing Blaine and Sherman on the Republican
presidential ticket
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

plea ded guilty
W edn esday, and
was sentenced TO
twelve years i'm
prisonnent at hard
labor. Harvey
while at the head
of one of the treas
ury bureaus obtain
ed nearly $40, 600 on
false claims for los,
horses. The claims
were engin e erred
through by means
of forgery. and the
culpr-it showed him
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, July 2l-The Fishback
rolling mill agreed to take back the strikers,
but the men. after receiving back wages due,
claimed that part of the agreement had not
been fulfilled and remained out The works
will now probably be shut down indefinitely
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

OSCAR / HARVEY. self irst-claSs
sconndrel He went about his rascality in
most thorough and systematic manner, but
murder will out" and 50 will stealing. and
now he will have leisure TO ponder on the
consequences of crookedneSs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

BALTIMORE. July 81 -Gugg.r,heimer h
Co. wholesale tobacco aml cigtrs. M ltN
Hanover street, have faIl,si Assets. SIS,
900, lia bilities, St5,,aW
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

Get rid of that tired feeling as quick as
possible. Take Hoods Sarssparilla it
gives strength, soeA appetite and
health,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21
Death o. stl,ann. Cobb.

Rosros, duly 2,,-zssis aims Cobb Jr,, thr
sn,i,p,l lie,, wednesday, asni W sseN
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-21

| WAsHNGTok CITY, July 2i-Oscar J.
| Harvey, the treasury department forger
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-13
Be Careful of the Minutes.

An incident of moment may fix an
impression for u lifetime. The intense
experience of an imminent personal
peril. the making or the breaking
of an intimacy, the decision which
changes ones subsequent life course,
the yielding to or the resistance
of peculiar temptaiton-it is of
moment, yet it may be for all time,
or even for eternity. And such mo-
mentous moment may come to us, or
we may come to it. at any hour. The
years that are gone may be as nothing
to it; the years that are to come, may
pivot on it, Realizing this truth, we
can never be careless of our minutes;
for possibly it is the next one of these
that shall send its resonant echoes
down through all the remaining days
and years of our life of action or of in
fluence. S. Times. ...
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-13
AN ARTIFICIAL SEA.
Tho Curious Work Carried Out In Tunls b,
- French Officer.

Tho Curious Work Carried Out In Tunis by
q French Officer.
Sir F. de Lesseps has lately COM
municated to the Institution of Civil
Engineers an interesting account OF II
curious work carried out in Tunis by
Colonel Roudaire. This gentleman APP
pears to have spent many years in
Tunis leveling, boring and making ex-
periments of various kinds. and has
come to the conclusion that four de-
pressions, or "shotts," as he terms
them. which he names Tedjed, Djerid.
Rharsa and Melrir. and are situated
seventy-seven feet six inches below the
sea level, could by means of a canal be
readily formed into large inland sea
or lake. which would have the effect Of
influencing for good the climate and
fertility of the surrounding country to
q considerable degree. rf.
This lake is stated to be 3.164 square
miles in extent. In order to prepare
for the vast expense with such an nu-
dertaking must involve, the Colonel
proposes TO sink artesian wells, for the
purpose of cultivating the country; and
the rent paid for the water thus OBJ
tanned might be applied, the whole or
in part. towards the construction of tho
proposed canal. In 1855 the first we'll
was sunk to the depth of 295 feet, when
water was found flowing at an average
Of 1,76O gallons per minute the first
year, which has now increased to 49,
800 gallons per minute. Sir +. do Les
seps says;
THE banks of the River Melah,
which fifteen months ago were deserts.
are NOW populated, and very shortly
the canal Is to be commenced, so that
the civilization of the French-Afrioan
possessions must come from below
that is TO say, must of necessity depend
for water supply ON wells only."-
Chambers Journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-13
RETURN OF AN EXILE.
A Once Famous Sioux Chief Visits tn
Land of His Fathers.

A Once Famous Sioux Chief Visits the
Land of His Fathers.
Enoch Mahpiyahdinape, one of the
Sioux who engaged in the massacre of
white settlers in Minnesota in 1862, re-
turned not long ago from far up in the
British possessions, where he has been
in exile for over twenty-five years. He
is an old man, and has come home to
spend his last few years among his rel
atives and be buried in the land of his
fathers. Enoch is an educated Indian,
who writes and speaks English well.
His name in English is Enoch Cloud
Appearing, and is well remembered by
the missionaries of Dakota who We're
children here forty years ago. Enoch
is master of the classic Dakota tongue,
and thirty-four years ago rendered
excellent service as critic to DR.. Riggs,
who prepared the first, and, so far,
the only dictionary of the Dakota
language, which was published by
the Smithsonian Institution. Enoch
finds his people greatly changed since
he fled for his life Il quarter of century
ago. They now live in frame houses
and have small, well-tilled farms.
Their children are in school, some of
them at Hampton and Carlisle, and
here at the agency is as pretty a Presby-
terian church as many a New England
village boasts, built and sustained by
the Indians unaided. The minister, the
Rev. Charles Crawford, was one of the
hostiles Of 1868, u tail, brave, intluen-
tial, full-blooded Indian, VINO is now as
devout and eloquent as he then was
murderous and cunning. Enoch even
finds his old comrades organized into II
small republic, after the manner of the
Anglo-Saxon, with full town meeting
system of government, court, and all
the accessories of good self-government.
The poor old exile found here. what
probably surprised him rs much as any
thing, Il new theory of living, for as
soon rs the news spread over the reser-
walton that Enoch had come back the
various churches at once began to give
money, clothes and food for his sup
port and comfort. This spontaneous
charity among these Indian churches
probably contrasted in Enoch Cloud
Appearing's mind with the old order of
things more strongly than all else he
saw.-Sisseton Agency a. IT, Letter.
There is one admirable feature
about wire fence. The patent medi-
cine man can't plant legend on it in
regard to his liver cure. Puck. .l,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-13
CROPS FOR FERTILIZERS.
A Splendid Way OF Assisting the Soil to
sltt Recuperate Itself. q 4I 4.Yl

A Splendid Way OF Assisting the Soil to
ys9 Recuperate ITSELF l's Ht
There. are times when, after the crop
has been harvested, the land is allowed
to remain uhdisturbed until the sue
ceeding spring; but experience has
demonstrated that it is better to have a
crop of some kind on the ground at all
times, provided such crops be not per-
mitted to mature, but be turned under
as manure. The old system of fallow-
ing the land, which was simply to give
it period of rest for recuperation,
proved very beneficial; yet, while the
landis remaining unproductive advan-
tage should be taken of the opportunity
for assisting the soil to regain fertility.
The soils that were heavily cropped
and abandoned became slightly COW
cred with scanty herbage, but as the
feeble plants derived much of their food
from the atmosphere. and, when plowed
under, added that which they gained to
the soil, in few years the soil became
sufficiently fertile to bear crop of some
kind. But such system Is not an eco
nomical one, for not only is there
loss of time, but the process of re-
cuperation is slow. Provided the
crop be seeded in with a view of
turning it under the soil is always Lem
Gifted, for while the plants, through
the agency of the roots and leaves. ap-
propriate nitrogen in the shape of nitric
acid and ammonia from the atmosphere
and moisture, the roots also exers both
mechanical and chemical action on
the inert elements of the soil itself,
thus converting plant food from in
soluble materials. Hence, when reg
ular crop is removed, such as corn, the
land should be seeded Immediately to
some other crop, as rye, for instance.
the rye to be turned under when of the
proper height. No possible injury can
be done the soil, as the rye will not be
removed, and such crop performs the
service Of assisting to restore fertility,
and also prevents the occupancy of the
land by weeds. !. The labor of blowing
ane narrowing is not very expensive II
credit be given the value of the labor
saved in destroying the weeds that
would spring up should the ground be
left uncovered, Shade benefits the
land also, and some farmers are Of the
opinion that the shading Of the ground
by clover is very important matter
that does not receive proper attention.;
hut where clover IL not possible. rs is
the case on some soils, the growing Of
special manurial crops is q cheap and
easy mode Of assisting TO restore those
soils that have been overcropped and
become somewhat exhausted. PhiIa-
delphia Record.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-13
STRANGE DRUGS.
The Supposed Cure Of Various Diseases by
HIdeous Potions.

The Supposed Cure OF various Diseases by
BIdeous Potions.
Old Sir Thomas Browne, after emu
merating the various diseases for which
divers great doctors recommend mummy
as an infallible remedy, protests against
such unworthy use of the ancient
heroes, and declares that to serve up
Chamnes and Amosisin electuaries and
pills, or that Cheops and Psammetichus
should be weighed out as drugs, is
dismal vampirism, more horrible than
the feasts of the Ghoules.
The apothecaries of England were
often well content to make use of a
cheap substitute which answered quite
as well, namely, the bones of ancient
Britons. DR.. Toope, of Oxford, writing
in 1886, tells how. at the circles on
Hakpen Hill, in Wiltshire, he had dis
covered rare lot of human bones
skeletons arranged in circles with the
feet toward the center. He says: "The
bones were large and nearly rotten,
but the teeth extream and wonderfully
white" Undisturbed by any questions
of reverence for these ancestors of his
race, he adds: II dug up many bushels,
with which 1 made noble medicine. :"
The mummy trade was supported by
various classes of the community, for
artists declared that mummy powder
beaten up with oil gave richer tones of
brown than any other substance, and
modern perfumers found means of pre-
pairing the perfumes and spices found
inside the bodies SO as to make them
exceedingly attractive to the ladies.
Paper manufacturers found that the
wrappings of the mummies could be
converted into coarse cloth for the use
of grocers, and the cloth and rags were
sometimes used as clothing-at least so
we were told by Abdallatif, q traveller
of the twelfth century, who also records
how one of his friends found in the
tombs at Ghizeh a jar carefully sealed,
which he opened and found it to con-
tain such excellent honey that he could
not resist eating good deal of it, and
was only checked in his feast by draw
ping out a hair, whereupon he investi-
gated further and found the body of an
ancient Egyptian baby in good condi-
ton and adorned with jewels. He does
not record how he enjoyed that meal in
retrospect. Imagine dining off the
honeyed essence of baby Pharaoh
| Nineteenth Century.